Why do you read?

• For our personal

• for information or • for our personal growth and
data gathering satisfaction development
 Two Kinds of
Reading

Efferent Reading Aesthetic Reading

It is when a student reads a text
Efferent reading is when a student
for entertainment purposes. An
reads a text to learn something
aesthetic reader uses literature to
valuable to them and retain
experience the thoughts, feelings
information that can be useful for
and emotions within a poem or
future use or recall. -Rosenblatt
narrative to evoke a “response”
within oneself -Rosenblatt
“The text is just ink on
paper until a reader
comes along and gives it
life.”

-Rosenblatt
Transactional Reader-
Response Theory

-by Louise
Rosenblatt
 Transactional Reader-Response Theory

• The reading process is a direct

transaction between a reader and
the text.

READER + TEXT = MEANING

• As the transaction takes place,

the reader adopts a stance on an
efferent or aesthetic
continuum.
When we read, the reader always adopt a stance which influences his
interactions with the text during the reading process.

Efferent Stance Aesthetic Stance

The reader focuses on the The reader focuses on the

cognitive, the referential, sensuous, the affective,
the factual, the analytic, the emotive, the
the logical and the qualitative aspects of the
quantitative aspects of meaning of the text.
meaning of the text.
As a teacher, how will you
integrate in your classroom the
efferent and aesthetic reading?
How to teach Efferent Reading:

• Read and listen to • Create and share • Responding to

informational texts. reports or the structure and
projects to elements of the
describe what text.
you learned.
Integrating Efferent Reading :

Example: Showing a news article to the class and let them read it. After that,
ask your students to complete a mind map about the news article.

The purpose of the efferent

reading is to retain concepts,
meanings, and facts presented
in the text after the reading has
been completed.
 How to teach Aesthetic Reading:

If we want students to read for a lifetime, we have to teach them to

enjoy reading.

• Get students to
• For novel or story • Give students TALK about what
studies, give time to read they are reading;
students a choice
aesthetically in compare and
between multiple
class with a contrast genres and
texts of different
text of their themes via literature
genres, but similar
circles, guided
themes. choice.
reading groups, etc.
Integrating Aesthetic Reading :

Example: Ask your students to have a book review

The focus of the aesthetic reading is

on the feelings, sensations,
and emotions evoked during
the reader's transaction with the
text.
The teacher needs to have a clear sense of purpose when
asking his students to read a particular piece.
“The texts themselves are neither efferent nor
aesthetic.”
In order for students to successfully develop the ability to read
both efferently and aesthetically, teachers need to be aware of
the existence and nature of both kinds of reading. Then, using
each in its proper context, teachers can guide the students
toward becoming mature readers capable of handling the
variety of reading materials they will encounter both inside and
outside of school.